Job Description

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

Working Arrangement Hybrid



The Opportunity

As a core member of the Singapore Strategy and Transformation team, you will be a key contributor to the delivery of strategic initiatives complying with Singapore and regional visions. You serve as a trusted advisor to multiple local and regional teams and provides strategic consulting as the point-of-contact and interface between business and technology throughout the lifecycle of strategic initiatives. Highly adaptive to a changing technology landscape, you will work with other architects and domain experts to produce high-level and detailed designs. You should be an effective communicator, quick to learn new tools and systems, and flexible in the face of change. You should quickly understand business challenges and uses combinations of tools and concepts to create solution proposals. This role will report to Head of Architecture Singapore.

What motivates you?

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit
• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile mindset and enable business outcomes
• You thrive in teams, and enjoy getting things done together
• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters
• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up
• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone

We are looking for someone with:

• Deep understanding of business strategy and ability to craft software/platform/infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes.
• Extensive knowledge of application architecture and digital: concepts, practices, and tools.
• Wide knowledge of architectural frameworks and the ability to produce effective design principles.
• Experience of Microservice and API based architectures.
• A wider view of the technology trends in the industry and DevOps experience.
• Familiarity with agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other Software Engineering best practices to accelerate the delivery and quality of new features.
• Ability to quickly comprehend new technologies and assess their potential impact and value for the organization
• Extensive knowledge of insurance business, systems, and processes will be a plus.
• Extensive experience of legacy transformation will be a plus.
• Ability to balance multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

On the job you will:

• Define the end-to-end solutions and uplift solution maturity across architecture layers.
• Establish solution roadmaps in alignment with Manulife\xe2\x80\x99s regional target architecture in respective domains.
• Serve as internal consultant to produce business transformation proposals with clear architecture vision and lead business transformation solution implementation through definition and realization of interim architectures.
• Act as domain expert to guide the development teams for technical solutions leveraging business requirements, reference architecture and solution architecture as inputs under the direction of Asia Technology Office.
• Review, interpret and respond to business requirements to ensure alignment between customer expectations and technology capabilities.
• Develop, test and implement technology solutions and report on delivery commitments to ensure solutions are implemented as expected.
• Conduct Proof of Concepts to validate technology concepts and trends.
• Identify areas of improvement and suggest solution roadmaps to bridge any gaps.
• Assist country architect in the review of design and assessment of solutions
• Work in partnership with DevOps owner to advance Engineering Excellence practice and provide guidance to development team.
• Collaborate with Agile owner to promote Agile mindset and adoption across the business and technology teams.

Our commitment to you

• Our mission; to be a part of making Decisions Easier and Lives Better
• A leadership team dedicated to your growth and success
• A bold ambition and set of goals to be a leader in driving transformation in our industry
• Our best. Every day.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as \xe2\x80\x98MFC\xe2\x80\x99 on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under \xe2\x80\x98945\xe2\x80\x99 in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact .

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